trivia 12/8
DID YOU KNOW...
No one in Greece can choose to not vote. Voting is required by law for every citizen who is 18 or older. Luxemburg, Belgium, and Cyprus also have compulsory voting laws.

1. What was Bing Crosby's theme song?
2. Who played Mozart in the movie "Amadeus"?
3. Really Tough Question Dept ;
What were the first names of Abe Lincoln's parents?
4. Which east coast community was home to the first movie studio?
5. What year was the last that Stanley Steamer automobiles were sold?
6. How did the phrase, "World of Tomorrow" make headlines in 1939?
7. What still-popular product originated in the 1920's under the name
"Fruit Smack"?
8. What year was the Beatle's last live concert?
TRUTH OR CRAP ??
One of the most important Naval Battles of the American Civil War was fought in the English Channel.
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1. "When the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day"
2. Tom Hulse
3. Nancy and Thomas
4. West Orange, N.J.
5. 1925
6. IT WAS THE "THEME" FOR THE NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR
7. Kool-Aid
8. 1966
TRUTH !!
CSS Alabama was built in secrecy in 1862 by British shipbuilders at Birkenhead, Cheshire.

Alabama served as a commerce raider, attacking Union merchant and naval ships over the course of her two-year career, as far away as the South Pacific and Indian Ocean.

Upon the completion of her seven expeditionary raids, Alabama had been at sea for 534 days out of 657, never visiting a single Confederate port. She boarded nearly 450 vessels, captured or burned 65 Union merchant ships, and took more than 2,000 prisoners without a single loss of life from either prisoners or her own crew.

On 11 June 1864, Alabama arrived in port at Cherbourg, France. The Ship's Captain soon requested permission to dry dock and overhaul his ship, much needed after so long a time at sea and so many naval actions.
Pursuing the raider, the American sloop-of-war, USS Kearsarge, under the command of Captain John Ancrum Winslow, arrived three days later and took up station just outside the harbor. While at his previous port-of-call, Winslow had telegraphed Gibraltar to send the old man-o-war USS St. Louis with provisions and to provide blockading assistance. Kearsarge now had Alabama boxed-in with no place left to run.
Having no desire to see his worn-out ship rot away at a French dock while quarantined by Union warships, and given his instinctive aggressiveness and a long-held desire once again to engage his enemy, Captain Semmes chose to fight.
A little more than an hour after the first shot was fired, Alabama was reduced to a sinking wreck by Kearsarge's powerful 11-inch (280 mm) Dahlgrens, forcing Captain Semmes to strike his colors .

1. "When the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day" 2. Tom Hulse ~~ Hulce3. Nancy and Thomas
4. West Orange, N.J.
5. 1925 6. IT WAS THE "THEME" FOR THE NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR 7. Kool-Aid 8. 1966 TRUTH !!

Miserable!

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